subject: How You Can Improve Browser Performance [print this page] How You Can Improve Browser Performance How You Can Improve Browser Performance
Most people don't like it when their browser tends to be slow and doesn't perform the way that it used to. It's even worse when you are in the middle of something with a variety of tabs open when the browser decides to crash, losing your place in what you were doing. There are several ways in which you can improve your browser's performance.
The first thing you need to do is clear your internet cache. Many times this improves performance almost immediately. Consider also making your cache a bit bigger. The reason is that when going back to previous pages that you have visited, the browser will load faster as it doesn't have to download as many things from the internet, since things like the pictures are already cached.
Update your browser from time to time. It's easy to not update the browser since it's not something that you think about too often. There are many people using very old browsers that could have better performance by actually updating things to something a bit more current.
One thing that most people don't think about are the two very common browser plugins. These are the Flash and Java plugins. There are performance increases that you can get by updating these. It's likely that you might have forgot to ever update them, and are using very old and slower versions of these two.
Use certain types of ad blocking software. These are designed to get rid of certain Flash objects on pages that you might not want to see. The reason it will improve performance is that it will cut out certain things on many pages, making them faster loading.
Try to get rid of things on your computer like viruses, spyware, and adware. Some of these are scraping information from your browser, slowing it down, as well as loading popups which are going to make everything load slower. Without them, you will have a better experience in your browser and on your machine in general.
